I recently needed to enable https support on a nginx server, using self-signed certificates. This is roughly the procedure I followed to:
First of all, generate the master CA certificate:
# Create the CA key
openssl genrsa -des3 -out ca.orig.key 4096
# Remove passphrase from CA key (optional)
openssl rsa -in ca.orig.key -out ca.key
# Create certificate (will create signing request + sign it)
openssl req -new -x509 -days ...
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